Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is a means of extracting fiction.

- Stone, Robert

Best Quotes about Life

Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. [Psalms 90:10]

Bible

People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I think that what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.

Campbell, Joseph

How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

Cities are distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is King Kong, or the blackout, or vertical bombardment: Towering Inferno. Los Angeles is the horizontal fault, California breaking off and sliding into the Pacific: Earthquake.

Baudrillard, Jean

Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.

Santaguida, Paul

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

Cabell, James Branch

11.

Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

James, William

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Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Percy, Walker

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Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Mille, Agnes De

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at stars.

Dyke, Henry Van

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Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

Hepburn, Katharine

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Today's city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.

Oppenheimer, Martin

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Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Steve Jobs

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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

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Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. [On Washington D. C.]

Dane, Frank

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Life -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

Pritchett, V. S.

25.

The truest end of life, is to find the life that doesn't end.

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What life means to us is determined, not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens.

Dunnington, Lewis L

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Living, just by itself -- what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting --or he'll come along and nibble your brain.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

Santayana, George

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Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Herold, Don

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Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

Herzen, Alexander

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When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

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This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.

Ovid

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A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...

Epicurus

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Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Billings, Josh

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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live!

Proverb, Scottish

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No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Steve Jobs

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Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

Kempton, Murray

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Life is like playing the violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Butler, Samuel

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Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

Piatt, Don

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The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.

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Reality is the crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Tomlin, Lily

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The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

Mumford, Lewis

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The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Carlyle, Thomas